Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

April and May of 1639, printed in the Twelfth RejJort of the Historical
MSS. Cummission, Appendix iv. pp. 504-516 ; and also with Sir
William Brereton's Journey through Durham and Northuniberland
in 1635, in Kichardson's Reprints of Rare Tracts.
Mr. Aston's armour comprised a cask, i.e., casque or helmet, a
gorget, or defence for the neck ; a culet or culettes, the overlapping
plates from the waist to the hip which protected the back of the
knight as the tuilles protected the front of the body (here the term
appears to apply to the front part as well) ;
pauldrons or shoulder
pieces in plate armour ; vambrace, or armour which covered the
right arm from the elbow to the wrist ; cuisses or armour for the
thighs, etc.